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Overview. The director Pasolini, who rose in the late period of neorealism films in Italy, continued his creative line of alerting the world with ancient mythological themes in the 1960s, and successively adapted and shot three classic classic films, namely "The Decameron", "The Canterbury Story" and "A Thousand Nights", with a relatively ...
Trilogy of Life In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights )—and in doing so ...
Nov 13, 2012 · In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian ...
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- Criterion Collection
- $40.2
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights)—and in doing so created his most uninhibited a...
Criterion presents Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life in a brand new Blu-ray box set. The set includes The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, and Arabian Nights. Each film is presented on its own dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Each film also receives a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer. All three transfers look quite...
All three films come with lossless Italian linear PCM 1.0 mono tracks. They all come off a bit flat and lack fidelity but they are serviceable, delivering sharp dialogue and clean music. Distortion isn’t a concern and all of the tracks are free of noise and damage. The only truly obvious problem is that all three films were dubbed during post-produ...
Criterion’s box set for Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life presents a number of features over the set’s three discs focusing on the individual films, the trilogy as a whole, and the filmmaker. The first disc, which presents The Decameron, starts with a new visual essay by film scholar Patrick Rumble. On The Decameron is a 25-minute piece looking at Pasolin...
Another fabulous box set from the folks at Criterion, delivering sharp, film-like transfers and a nice roster of supplements. It comes with a high recommendation. BUY AT:
1974 2h 10m NC-17. 6.7 (9.1K) Rate. In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
Overview. A series of films about Jason Stevens, who inherits a fortune from his grandfather. Number of Movies: 3. Revenue: $3,438,735. Sort. March 9, 2007. When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will.
Fifty Shades is a British-American film trilogy series based on the Fifty Shades trilogy by English author E. L. James. It is distributed by Universal Studios, and stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as the lead roles Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, respectively.
